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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon to hire 75,000 workers, on top of the 100,000 new positions from last month; 3rd-party sellers can ship some “nonessential” items to Amazon this week — Tech giant's planned hiring of 175,000 workers to help it handle surge in orders during pandemic
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Amazon says it will put new online grocery delivery customers on a waitlist and prioritize existing customers amid surging demand — (Reuters) - Amazon will begin to put new grocery delivery customers on a wait list and curtail shopping hours at some Whole Foods stores to prioritize orders …
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| TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google reps confirm contact tracing update will be for devices with iOS 13 or Android 6+ via Google Play, say only health authorities can access API — Last week, Apple and Google announced a partnership that will soon let users opt-in to a decentralized tracing tool …
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
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| Ross Anderson / Light Blue Touchpaper: |
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
ESRB, the organization that rates the content of video games, announces a new label for games that offer in-game purchases of loot boxes or other similar items — It's an additional descriptor to the ‘In-Game Purchases’ label introduced in 2018 — The Entertainment Software Rating Board …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning an iPad Pro-like design with flat edges and a smaller notch for iPhones, a smaller, cheaper HomePod, and Apple Tags for the fall — - iPhone's fall refresh to add 5G on as many as four new models — Smaller HomePod speaker, location tags for keys in development
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Credentials for 500,000+ Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, given away for free — Over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, given away for free.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Meg Whitman says Quibi had 1.7M downloads in its first week and is accelerating plans to let the app cast to TVs due to the lockdown — - New mobile streaming service Quibi saw 1.7 million downloads in its first week, CEO Meg Whitman said on CNBC's “Squawk on the Street” Monday.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Starting April 18, Zoom will allow paying customers to opt in or out of specific data center regions after some calls were inadvertently routed through China — Free users can't change their region, but data won't be routed through China — Zoom will let paying customers pick …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / OneZero: |
As some YouTube advertising rates drop by as much as 50% while viewership rates are up, YouTubers say their pay has dropped dramatically — Advertising rates on the platform have dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic — Newspapers, websites, and TV channels have all been decimated by the coronavirus.
Tweets: @ozm, @travisshreffler, @baekdal, @baekdal, @carnage4life, @therevmountain, @jasonmaestas, @ozm, and @stokel
| Bloomberg: |
Apple responds to Dem senators' letter regarding the privacy of its COVID-19 tools, saying the tools are not subject to HIPAA rules but don't collect user data — Apple Inc. responded to Democratic Senators who sent a letter to Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook with questions related …
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Bloomberg Government, MacRumors, PYMNTS.com, iMore, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @yoda
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram updates its IGTV app with a hands-free recording mode, a Discover tab, and a redesigned homepage featuring a recommended creator at the top — Is anyone using this app, though? — Instagram is updating its IGTV app today, likely in the hopes of getting more people to use …
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Input, Engadget, Glossy, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Thurrott, Appleosophy, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @timothydelag and @brianfagioli
| Anuradha Raghu / Bloomberg: |
As the COVID-19 pandemic shuts down large parts of the global economy, geospatial analytics companies are tracking food supplies via satellites, drones, more — As the coronavirus pandemic leads to anxiety over the strength of the world's food supply chains, everyone from governments to banks are turning to the skies for help.Sponsor Posts
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